As the child of a family that got rich from demolition compensation, Su Baiqing is perfectly happy with her lie-flat life, collecting rent. Then she unexpectedly dies and transmigrates into the body of a poor landowner, bound to a Breeding System.
According to the System, if she makes full use of its features and fulfills the original designer's vision, she can transmigrate back home.
Su Baiqing wants to bind herself to a Seductress System. With her looks and her status as a level-ten expert on the drama Empresses in the Palace, she is bound to come out on top.
Or she could bind herself to a Military General System. That would suit her temper perfectly: she never hesitates to throw a punch, and with the highest combat power, she could beat everyone into submission.
But the System says that, given her family's generations of farming traditions and her habit of planting vegetables in the flowerbeds of her apartment complex even after they got rich from demolition, the Breeding System is her destiny.
With no other choice, and eager to return to her life of collecting rent, Su Baiqing rolls up her sleeves and starts farming, bringing soybean oil, homemade fertilizer, and scientific seed breeding to the people.
From then on, Great Wei has an agricultural bureau, and the female emperor has a female chancellor. Su Baiqing leads a group of veteran farmers, taking on squabbling civil officials and glory-hungry generals. For the sake of an everlasting legacy, every last one of you is going farming!
But that's all in the future. Right now, Su Baiqing has nothing but four bare walls and a few acres of poor land. Luckily, she has inherited the family knack for haggling, the kind that gets you a scallion thrown in when you buy bok choy. She haggles her way into a cheat, just waiting to fish someone out of the Guanlan River...
As Great Wei's strongest fighter, Xie Wang looks back on his life and sees nothing but a tool for his family, used up and then discarded.
At the very end of his life, Xie Wang finally chooses his own death freely: he jumps into the Guanlan River.
Then someone fishes him out.
"So this is my cheat? He's way too young. I've already got two deadweights to raise. Why do I have to raise another one?!!"
Thirteen-year-old Su Baiqing holds fourteen-year-old Xie Wang by the collar, her disdain plain to see.
Reader's guide: Farming story. The female lead transmigrates, the male lead is reborn. An ambitious heroine and a protective hero.
Premise: Everyone has a talent that will surely be useful.